Agricultural and Biosystems Engineer Licensure Examination

Recalled Questions 2018

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AREA 1

Agricultural Mechanization, Agricultural Power, Agricultural Machinery and Equipment and Allied
Subjects

August 23, 2018

2 pm – 6 pm

1. For a 4 inches by 4 inches centrifugal pump with discharge of 250 gpm, determine the size
of the diesel engine. Efficiency of the pump is 65%, of the belt transmission is 95%, and of
the air-cooled system is 80%. Total head is 30 ft.

2. The calibration of the 9X7 (9 rows X 7 inches row spacing) grain drill is shown below. Row
spacing is to be adjusted to 14 inches. Groundwheel diameter is 1.22 m. What is the
seeding rate at 1/4 adjustment?

3. A 4-wheel tractor with 3X14 inches moldboard plow is to operate on clay loam soil (specific
draft = 0.56 kg/cm2) at a depth of 25.4 cm. The maximum draft and percent increase in
draft due to speed are:

4. A field area having 4050 m2 is to be prepared using a 1-m upland power tiller at a speed of
3 kph. Assume a 10% overlap between passings and 9 seconds turnaround time at the end
of each pass. Determine the field capacity in going the longer field direction:

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 5. The National Building Code of is covered under:

6. A 1.2-m wide floating tiller is used for rotary tilling/puddling a 1008 m2 wetland paddy field.
The average speed of travel is 3 kph and turning at the headlands takes 10 seconds. What
is the field efficiency if the field is worked along its length?

7. The projection of cash inflow and outflow of a farm to estimate the incremental net benefit
of the life of the project is known as

8. The adjustable orifice with agitator is used for:

9. An engine was tested on a brake dynamometer at a speed of 2000 rpm. The brake arm of
the machine is 1.2 meters and it registers a load of 5 kg. What is the shaft power of the
engine?

10. The thermal efficiency range for internal combustion engines is:
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11. Cleaning units for rice husk gasifier to remove gaseous pollutant and solid particles while
cooling the gas at the same time.

12. The lubrication system of an engine is basically…

13. This rating is given to diesel fuels for their ability to burn without detonating as compared
with the performance of reference fuels.

14. What is the piston displacement for a 76 mm × 78 mm engine:

15. The primary gas produced during anaerobic digestion of agricultural wastes.

16. The air requirement for gasification of agricultural waste ranged from

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 17. The speed of the engine is automatically regulated by

18. A tractor pulls a 1.0 meter wide heavy duty offset disk harrow at an operating speed of 6
kph. What is the theoretical field capacity of the machine?

19. Compute the power that can be generated by a hydro-turbine with water input of 40 lps
with a head of 20 m. The turbine efficiency is 70%.

20. Standard throttling adjustment of an engine.

21. A term used to describe the resistance of oil to flow.

22. The act regulating the practice of agricultural and biosystem engineering in the Philippines

23. Determine the number of 13-cm animal drawn plows needed to complete plowing a 3-ha
field in one day (8 hrs/day). Field efficiency is 78% and speed of travel is 3 kph.

24. A type of pump that develops most of the suction and discharge head by propelling or
lifting action of the impeller vanes in the water.

25. A component part of solar electric system that converts sunlight to electricity

26. An engine running without load is in.

27. Find the Present worth

Given: Annual: 1000

Years: 5 years @ 12% compounded monthly
28. Given the purchase value of a thresher amounting 65, 000 pesos at 15% interest, 1st
payment 1500, 2nd payment 10,000 and 3rd payment 15000. Find the down payment?

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SITUATIONAL QUESTIONS:

1. IRR, Payback period, BCR, NPV

2. Monopoly, pure competition, oligopoly, oligopsony
3. Aftersales, workmanship, warranty, performance evaluation
4. Hectare to be plow/harrow, fuel used in plowing/harrowing
5. Gross income, Net income, ROI, break even price

AFMech Law, ABE law, National Building code, and CPES

Sources:

CLSU Agricultural Engineering Licensure Examination Review Class

Philippine Society Of Agricultural Engineers Region IVAe Board Review
Agricultural Pow er & Energy Source, And Allied Subjects By Alexis T. Belonio
Philippine Agricultural Engineering Standards

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 Agricultural and Biosystems Engineer Licensure Examination
Recalled Questions 2018
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AREA 2

Soil and Water Resources Development and Conservation, Irrigation, Drainage and Allied Subjects

August 23, 2018

8 am – 1 pm

1. The process of moisture lost of plants through the leaves:

2. Water is supplied to level plots surrounded by dikes or levees. This method is particularly
useful on fine-textured soils with low permeability, it is necessary to hold the water on
the surface to secure adequate penetration.

3. A type of terrace usually used for 9-24% slope characterized by breaking the slope at
certain intervals by a ridge and a flat portion to trap runoff.

4. If the depth changes abruptly over a comparatively short distance such as in a hydraulic
jump

5. Evapotranspiration in an 10 ha farm is 10 mm/day and percolation losses is 5 mm/day.

What is the design discharge of a canal to be able to deliver a 5 days requirement of the
farm in 24 hours, if irrigation efficiency is 62.5 %?

6. It is the combined process of evaporation and transpiration from plants.

7. For an 10m x 10m sprinkler spacing, what is the design sprinkler throw for a 50%
overlap?

8. The moisture content of the soil when tension is 1.5 atmosphere.

9. The most simple form of open channel flow computation is:

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 10. The sum total of head above the vapor pressure of the liquid being pumped at a given
pumping temperature.

11. Potential ability of the rain to cause erosion. It is a function of the physical characteristics
of the rainfall

12. Is the practice of growing different crops in alternate strips across the slope to serve as
barriers for soil erosion.

13. Results from mechanical lifting of the air mass over mountain barriers.

14. A term that is used to explain the fact that the hybrids or crossbreed are usually better
and more vigorous than their parents

15. The submain is laid in a depression and the laterals join the submain from each side
alternately.

16. The pigs farrowed by a sow or the pups whelped by a bitch at one delivery period; also
the accumulation of materials used for bedding of farm animals.

17. It is the instrument used in measuring wind velocity.

18. It is the circulation of water in the earth-atmosphere system

19. The time required for water to flow from the most remote point of the watershed to the
outlet is

20. Similar to stone check dams however the stones in this case are placed on rectangular
wire mesh, piled-up as blocks and tied together to form a reinforced wall or dam
structure.

21. A critical flow is a flow condition where:

22. An equation or method used in the estimation and representation of evapotranspiration

rate. Computation

23. Type of terrace usually used for 25-30% slope characterized by construction of series of
platforms along the contours cut into the hill slope in a step like formation

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 24. It is geologic formation which transmits water at a rate insufficient to be economically
developed for pumping

25. Photoperiodism is the response of plant to different ___________

26. A type of cropping system wherein different crops are planted in an area one after the
other each season

27. A hydraulic jump is classic example of the type of flow:

28. The term applied for the meat of a goat:

29. The science with the study of water in all phase of existing is called.

30. Rate of removing undesirable or unproductive animals within the herd

31. When the water level in the pipe drops below the upper edge of the pipe or culvert and
its conduit controls, the flow becomes:

32. It the vertical distance from the centerline of the pump to the discharge water level.

33. A system of aquaculture in which the waste produced by farmed fish or other aquatic
animals supplies nutrients for plants grown hydroponically, which in turn purify the
water.

34. What color in PAG-ASA’s color coded rainfall advisory system which indicates that a
torrential rainfall more than 30 mm within one hour might likely to occur?

35. It is the science of the movement of groundwater.

36. Types of surveying

37. Types of sampling

38. Probability (permutation)

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Computation:

Blaney- Criddle Equation

The design depth should be. (Given: Q, V, z, b )

Wave height

Sources:

CLSU Agricultural Engineering Licensure Examination Review Class

Philippine Society Of Agricultural Engineers Region IVAe Board Review
Agricultural Pow er & Energy Source, And Allied Subjects By Alexis T. Belonio
Philippine Agricultural Engineering Standards

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 Agricultural and Biosystems Engineer Licensure Examination
Recalled Questions 2018
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AREA 3

Rural Electrification, Agricultural Processing, Agricultural Structures and Allied Subjects

August 22, 2018

8 am – 2 pm

1. What part of an aerogenerator exceeding 100 kw capacity is responsible in converting

rotational movement to electricity?

2. Agent conduct heat from refrigerated coils and release outside air

3. It is the refrigerant suitable for large industrial low-temperature installations.

4. At what speed will a 14-pole, 60-cycle induction motor operate if the slip is 0.09?

5. For a given voltage source of 220 V at 50 Hz, a special electric motor required 1.962 kW
and 9.5 amperes. Find the power factor of the motor.

6. The typical width of farm-to-market road for one and two-lane roadway.

7. A 40 watt fluorescent lamp produces 3,000 lumens of light in a room with a dimension of
3 meters by 5 meters. What is the illumination of the floor?

8. The indicator of the uniformity of ground materials in the resultant product.

9. Site for slaughter houses should be elevated ___ above the adjacent ground.

10. The recommended dimension for warehouse with 10,000 cavans capacity

11. Recommended orientation of swine house

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 12. A switch for automatic starting of pumps with sealed water tank in drip irrigation
systems.

13. What type of pump is appropriate for multi-bladed windmills?

14. Part of multi-bladed wind pump which is responsible in converting rotational movement
to reciprocating action.

15. To have a tip speed ratio of 1:1 in windmills, what should be the average rotor blade twist
angle in degrees?

16. In an Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) system, what causes OTEC fluid to flow
and rotate the turbine?

17. What is the standard concrete wall thickness of lateral trapezoidal open channel in open
channel design?

18. The minimum methane content of biogas such that biogas-fueled generators will run.

19. Rotating part of a geothermal power plant which moves the generator.

Compuaton:

Footlambert
Current, coulomb
Power factor computation (single-phase
Actual power
Circular mill to square inch
Power factor (three-phase)

Sources:

CLSU Agricultural Engineering Licensure Examination Review Class

Philippine Society Of Agricultural Engineers Region IV Ae Board Review
Agricultural Processing, Structures, Electrification and Allied Subjects By Alexis T. Belonio
Philippine Agricultural Engineering Standards
AE BOARD REVIEWER Revised October 8, 2008 by Victorio L. Pasado

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